Our favourite things: March 2018

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We’ve been here and we’ve been there, and our team have found a few things we thought we’d share

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Start your engines — opening in Nashville this year, August Moon Drive-In is a blast from the past. With 1,000 parking spaces, pull up to watch a flick beneath a dome that can simulate fireflies, sunsets and starts. Classic cars, hammocks and trees complete the atmosphere, while burgers and shakes add some flavour to this slice of quintessential Americana. Stephanie Cavagnaro

In numbers: World’s largest underwater cave system

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Length in miles of the cave discovered by divers in Mexico2
Number of caves linked together to create the system off the Yucatán Peninsula10
Months spent swimming through tunnels to prove the flooded caverns were connected358
Submerged cave systems surveyed by the diversTamsin Wressell

What: Paris’s first digital art centreWhere: A renovated 19th-century foundry in Paris’s 11th arrondissement from April 2018.Tell me more: Following the Carrières de Lumières museum in Provence, this second outpost will project digital versions of works by Klimt, Bosch, Chagall and more. Josephine Price

Spare a thought for Europe’s neglected monuments. Europa Nostra has compiled a list of 12 ‘at-risk’ heritage sites, including a dozen churches in Albania, a modernist monument in Bulgaria, and the UK’s first ice factory in Grimsby. Connor McGovern